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 INDIAN INCO E TAX 1 remote dependant dominion under as moderate a taxation the ends of our seem to have as will consist with Later on these views and the temporary settlements, ye8, were Among effected n the direct under the Company, sone under former 'following meaning mainly tors especially, m all taxes (overnments, important imposts: universal, included collected by Government." been 'changed revenue and are known today as the There was again a tax known levied on bnggys, carts, and chariots, confined to Bombay only. 0ollections were farmed to the highest bidder and the tax was very. oppressive in amount.  At present this tax is entirely handed over to municipalities. The group of taxes known as Pilgrim taxes coming down from remote times, consisted of a number of imposts; () a poll tax upon all pilgrims resorting not only to the great temples, but to many of the smaller pagodas and shrines of fame; (b) a tell on all tax upon the artisans from commuted for fees in kind received by the village the cultivators. All these were later a money tax or tess on the land provincial rates. as the wheel tax, syr Deccan the col- form part of municipal revenues. In Madras, on the other hand, the term was used to designate trusj duties. In the again syr was divided into two branches (a) Moturpha, a tax on professions, and implements iected by village officers, and {b) the Bullooteh, all of which now duties-at bazaars, and collections from Gaya besides o[ which nay be $a, ytzr, duties, and othei places of Pilgrimage, the land tax were also levied mentioned the word an Arabic many rregular receiFts provlacial olticers from cultiva- Bengal. ' It also included town, 1 8eleoi Commitos on Et-lndi Afttits, 18al-S2. Vol. IV. on lievenue, p. vii. Select Committee, 18a1-2, Vol. IV, p. xiv. Seizes Commistee, p. xv. lasting from 15 to 80 other Indian provinces.